Preparing for a lunar impact
A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presen...
| Published in: | ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2011
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1982562.1982569 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1982562.1982569 |
| Summary: | A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith. The effects of the impact were captured by sensors on board a shepherding satellite following four minutes behind the Centaur. They were also recorded by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which passed over the crash site less than two minutes after the impact. |
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